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| Name | Where | What it does | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
pm_session | Adventures, Studio | Keeps you signed in. Set only when you sign in, removed when you sign out. | 60 days |
better-auth.session_token | Events, Revival | Keeps you signed in. | 60 days |
better-auth.session_data | Events, Revival | A short copy of your sign-in, so pages load faster. | 5 minutes |
vn_sso | Events, Revival | Remembers a "Sign in with Via Nostalgia" in progress, so nobody else can finish it. | 10 minutes |
better-auth.admin_session | Events, Revival | Only for our own reviewers, when they check what a user sees. | Session |
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Storage on your device
Adventures and Studio keep some things in your browser's own storage, on your device, so they work without an account and offline. It reaches us only when you sign in (to add your progress to your account) or move the app to a new address, and it is never used to track you. Clearing your browser's data for the site removes it.
Adventures
- Your passport and progress:
vn-field-v1,vn-field-xp-v1,vn-field-mine-v1,vn-field-demo-v1,vn-pgrid-v1,vn-field-goal,postmarked:league. - Walks and routes:
vn-walk-meta-v1:<city>,vn-route-v1:<city>,vn-street-v1,pm-directions,pm-step-card. - Settings and screens you have seen:
vn-field-city,vn-map-hidden-v1,vn-show-all,vn-field-welcomed,pm-lang, and the guide settings startingpm-guidesandpm-tips. - Account and links:
vn-field-has-account,vn-friend-invite(a friend link you opened, for up to 7 days),vn-field-moved, and for one visitvn-sso-returnandpm-chunk-reload. - Offline copies: map tiles, place lists and pictures you have already seen, so the app works with a weak signal.
Studio
- Your projects and media: the browser's private file system and the databases
studio,studio-media,studio-transcriptsandstudio-waveforms. Your photos, clips and sound stay here and are never uploaded. - Settings:
studio.brandKit,studio.renderer, panel layouts startingstudio.,pm-lang, and for one visitstudio.askedSignIn. - AI models and tools you have downloaded, kept so they don't download again (for example
transformers-cache,studio-translate,studio-voices).
vianostalgia.com
vn-theme: whether you chose light or dark.
Other sites your browser loads
To show maps and photos, your browser loads map tiles from OpenFreeMap and photos from Wikimedia. Studio's AI tools are downloaded from Hugging Face, jsDelivr and Google's file storage. Events and Revival use Cloudflare Turnstile to spot bots. As far as we know, none of them sets a cookie through our pages. They do see your IP address, as any website you load does. See Processors.
Draft. Last updated 29 October 2026.